The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-04-21


Columbia college, New York, celebrated
the Tooth anniversary OF the establish
ment OF the institution under its present
name, at the Metropolitan opera house Oh
the 18th. Literary, musical and religious
| exercises were held. Frederick K. Coudert
OF the class of 1850, delivered the Grafton.
Alumni from all parts of the country were
present as were also representatives from
many OF the American seats OF learning.
At Cincinnati, the jury in the case OF
John B. Mannix, formerly assignee q
Archbishop Purcell, after remaining out
thirty hours reported disagreement ano
were discharged. He was charged with EN-
| bezzling SIT 900 from the estate.
Goodrich e. Wagner, successors to Ball &
Goodrich, the oldest wholesale grocers il
Milwaukee. made Il voluntary assignment
to b. X. Miller. who furnished bonds in
$2TO.ooo. This sum represe nts the assets
The accompliees of the railroad thieves
are resorting TO threats to intlmidate the
Panhandle railroad officials. Supt. Tny-
lor received IL letter threatening to cut the
| wires ii arrests were not stopped.
At Napa, Cal, Elijah Waters and T.
| Wagner engaged in II bare knuckle fight
In the first round Waters was struck OF
the head and fell unconscious. He re-
manned so for several hours, when ht
died.
L. T. Letter OF Chicago paid 81 900 fol
an Elliott Indian Bible at the Brindley sale
in New York
| j. P. Taylor, aged sixty, his wife and sor
| Owen, aged seventeen were struck and in
stantly killed by an Erie train at a cross
| ing near Waverly, n. Y. Taylor was d
wealthy farmer. The accident destroyed
the entire family.
At Cincinnati, DR.. McGlynn of New York
delivered lecture on ''The Cross OF a New
Crusade, at Music hall, under the man
| agement of the Henry George club. On
the platform were members of that club
and prominent members OF the labor
| party. There were no Catholic cergymer
| on the stage or in the audience. The as
sembly filled nearly half OF the large hal
and numbered perhaps 1000. DR.. Nc
| Glynn followed in the main his New York
| lecture, but introduced a passage referring
in caustic terms to the censure cast upon
him by Archbishop Elder OF Cincinnati, to
whom he attributed the first complaint ts
| against him at Rome.
A fire destroyed the st. Augustine (Flor.)
| hotel, the old Spanish cathedral, the Ed
! wards hotel, the court house, the Sinclair
| block, Chamberlin's store, Mr.. Scott's res
idenoe and Welter's hotel. The total loss Is
$3.50 900. The loss on the st. Augustine ho-
| tel is S loo, 900. The insurance had Just ex
| pired. The ninety guests and forty ser
wants in the st. Augu ustine hotel all escaped
except Bridget Barry. a laundry woman
who was burned to death. The old Span
ish cathedral was just west OF the st. Au
| gustine house. The roof caught fire and
| soon fell, destroying all the historical rel
| les i'll the interior. The old cathedral was
| Quilt in 1893 and was in use for purposes
! ,f worShin nm n tha time Of it's 0eStruc
ton.
| At Missoula. Mont, a fire broke out IL
| the city Jail totally consuming the jail ano
one prisoner who had been locked up. II
| is supposed he set fire to the Jail and with
out any visible means Of escape, intended
suicide, which was essfullyaccompished
He gave his name as Frank Chambers, anC
was arrested for vagrancy. He was TWEEN
| ty-five years OF age.
| An entire election board is arrested al
Jersey City for ballot box frauds.
The cases of Voice and O'Neil, the two
| policemen indicted at East St. Louis, Ill.,,
| for the murder Of Mayor Bowman, have
been nolle pressed.
The old house OF Kirkpatrick, Kinzie
CO., tanners, Philadelphia, has suspended
Liabilities 5000, 900.
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox has returned from
Havana, and says that city has too many
| bad smells to be called celestial"
| Senator Dawes notified the sergeant t.
| arms OF the senate that the subcommittee
| OF the senate committee on Indian affairs
will be ready to start for the Northwest
the latter part of May. The subcommittee
which was appointed under a resolution
offered by Senator Morgan in the senat.
during the last days OF the session, il
authorized to investigate the adminstra
ton OF affairs by Indian agents on tn'
northern border, especially the conduct o
| Agent Sheehan at White Earth agency il
Minnesota. The subcommittee consists
of Senator Dawes, Sabin and Morgan.
| At Minneapolis, in the divorce suits o.
Alice Mitchell vs.. Charles L. Mitchell anG
Lillian Felt US. Jay H. Felt, judgment wai
given for the Plaintiffs.
The Atlanta on her trial trip attained
an average speed OF 15h knots an hour
which is satisfactory to the navy depart
ment.
| Judge Cooley, president OF the interstate
commerce commission, has returned tt
Washington. 1t is stated that the com
mission has ruled that nothing in the law
prohibits granting of excursion rates by
railroad companies, which will relieve tn,
management OF the National Drill assoca
tion from much embarrassment
A verdict OF $4,000 was rendered in tn,
suit OF Mrs. Mary Yando against the Chi
cago Milwaukee and st. Paul Rrilroat
company, which was on trial before Judg,
Gary at Chicago. In May, 1885, plaintiff
was run down while crossing the tracks be
tween Randolph and Lake streets and los
both hands, besides having several bones
broken. A motion for new trial was en-
tered by the company.
| IDroo,JaDf 6JauoIo nd Vaf,oas tho o,pl;oo
| tion for pardo on in case OF William LIE
baron OF Minnesota.
| Col. r. l. Dodge, Eleventh infantry, hal
been ordered to Yankton, under subpoena
from the United States court.
| Congressman. n.Butterworth is Quaker
and uses the Quaker phrase in his family
The Treasury department has refused tt
accept trade dollars in payment of due
although these coins are temporarily re
ceivable in exchange for standard dollars
The department says they are depriv
ed by law of any legal tender quality.
| Postoffices established: Iowa, Sewall
Wayne county. -Wiscon
sin. Stoner's Prairie, Wayne county
| Fourth-class postmaster appointed
Minnesota, Fowlds, C. A. Warner South
Haven, A. G. Laird.
The Indian bureau possesses no infor
| nation regarding the arrest OF q largt
number of farmers in Montana for ALLEGED
cutting OF timber on the Crow reservation
as stated in dispatches from the North
| west.
The announcement in thegovernor- gener
ais speech was the first iptimation TO tn,
Canadian legislators that the government
proposed to ask parliment to vote none,
to build canal on canadian territory a
Sault Ste. Marie. prominent legis
lator expressed the opinion that this is
precautionary step against the passage d
q stringent retaliatory measure by con
gress, and that the Canadian Pacific hat
induced the government to take up th
work. President Stevens and Sir Donals
Smith were in town recently, and had nu
merous interviews with Sir John McDon
aid. The Canadian Pacific does hi
steamship business on Lake Superior ever,
season, and were the use of the Michigan
canal refused them the companys lax
traffic could be annihilated.
Charles s. Sweet OF Chicago, whom Secre
tary Lincoln at the beginning OF his ad
Immigration OF the war department. ap
pointed his private secretary and whom
Secretary Endicott has retained in posi-
tiop mn r., fh;o %iypo hos hcop o1nc tod GO cro